From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH 0/6] A bit better dumb server support Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:53:49 -0700 Message-ID: <7vsly5korm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <7vwtnqhcfb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20050723081549.GC3255@mythryan2.michonline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 24 02:53:58 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DwUkg-0004LY-2W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:53:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261670AbVGXAxw (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:53:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261747AbVGXAxw (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:53:52 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net ([68.230.241.31]:15009 "EHLO fed1rmmtao08.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261670AbVGXAxv (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:53:51 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050724005345.FWYS16890.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:53:45 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Several days ago there was a discussion on discovering remote tags and branches. This was somewhat related to supporting packed repositories on a dumb server I have been toying with, so here is my current status. The first three patches deal with the discovery of remote tags and heads: [PATCH 1/6] git-peek-remote: show tags and heads from a remote repository. [PATCH 2/6] Documentation: git-peek-remote. [PATCH 3/6] git-ls-remote: show and optionally store remote refs. The discovery over http transport against a dumb server needs to have a couple of files to support it, which is prepared with the next two patches. [PATCH 4/6] Add update-server-info. [PATCH 5/6] Document update-server-info. The git-update-server-info command introduced by these two patches prepare not just the list of tags and heads, but the list of packs and commit ancestry information. Using that, cloning a packed repository over http transport from a dumb server becomes trivial. [PATCH 6/6] Support cloning packed repo from dumb http servers. The next task would be to add support of the same to git-fetch.